Participants:
- MDA: Eli Jaffe, Yonatan Yagodovsky, Alon Friedman, Itamar Abramovich, Ilan Klein, Vicky Angel, Ido Gutin
- Australia (NSW): Roland Nagel
- Australia (Vic): Glynis Lipson
- France: Dr. Lazar Kaplan
- Israel: Danny Zimet
- Mexico: Moises Mitrani
- South Africa: Mark Hyman
- Sweden: Dr. Sigmund Soback
- UK: Daniel Burger
- USA: Arnold Gerson, Rob Rosenthal, Eillene Leistner
- Belgium: Yoni
MDA: MDA Preparedness – stations are fully staffed. Dispatching centers + Blood Centers are operating from bomb shelters and safe rooms. Volunteers have been activated; some employees were called on reserve duty with the IDF. MDA reserve duty unit of the Home Front Command is operated.
MDA works in cooperation with all other emergency forces (IDF, Israel Police and governmental offices) Main expenses for MDA: manpower, gas, equipment, food, maintenance of systems: communication, Beeper, Mirs, radio, ambulances & MICUs. Every war day costs MDA 150,000 USD
MDA Director General sends his gratitude to MDA FS for their efforts their support and friendship.
We do our best to update you with the whatsApp and by emails, including photos on Picasa. Do not hesitate to send us requests for information.
Australia NSW: Conducted telethon on Sun. June 13. Promoting MDA needs due to the current situation. Sending press releases, using email lists and postal mail. The timing was good led to press advertisement. The event was very successful and showed solidarity to Israel.
Australia Vic: Sending updates via Emailing lists and press. Tomorrow the FS will approach “big” donors and trusts in the hopes of raising money for the Tablets. The FS thanks MDA, AF & MDAUK for the information received
Belgium: Focusing on social media, interviews & updates to the Jewish Radio stations. Concentrating their efforts in fundraising
UK: The FS is pleased with the WhatsApp updates. They released an emergency campaign during the weekend, focusing on medical supplies. They are contacting their key donors over the phone.
France: Promoting media awareness, doing interviews to radio & television stations in France. Emailing- approaching MDA friends for donations. The campaign is successful. The FS will be able to assist MDA with higher sums than agreed doing IMDAC.
South Africa: Interviews on a radio channel of an Israeli representative and will have more. Sending emails to the donors, and receiving helpful information from AFMDA. SA CFMDA is active and has a very good feedback, as well as Facebook.
Sweden: Thanks MDA for all of the Information. Tomorrow will transfer 15,000$. The FS is translating all of the info to Swedish and uploads it to their website.
USA: Arnold AFMDA conducts a variety of activities including launching a campaign a week ago. Congratulating MDA for their efforts on the ground and wishing safety to the people in Israel.
Rob: Sending information in all media channels. 240,000$ were raised through the internet. The FS conducted radio interviews and made sure that MDA will be mentioned with its name in the media and not as in past events.
Eileen: All of the fundraisers across the U.S are accelerating the fundraising activities that started when the 3 teenagers were abducted.
An increase in ambulance donations and general donations.
There is a campaign in synagogues for medical supplies, AEDs and money for ambulances and MICUs.
Israel – assisting and promoting fundraising in Israel and focusing on MDAs specific needs of equipment and devices. Tomorrow there will be a meeting with the activists to extend the activities.
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